Boards

Yesterday I went to the pub to watch the football. Nothing particularly crazy there, I do it pretty much every Sunday. Anyway, they've changed our local so you can no longer sit at the bar and smoke, which is what I used to do, so I had to find a table. In front of the screen, the only spare chairs were at a table occupied by an old boy, so I plucked up the courage and asked him if he minded me sitting with him.

So anyway, to cut to the chase, I spent the next six hours (they were that cool I stayed with them for an hour or two after the games) getting exceedingly drunk with five or six people old enough to be my grandparents, and had one of the best and most relaxed Sunday afternoons of my life.

And I'd only intended to go in on my own, as I normally do, have a pint or two and watch a couple of games. Hurray for old people! (Sorry if this bores anyone, but I'm still smiling at the thought of my ace afternonn, and had to tell someone).

That's it. It was the unexpectedness of how they took to a lonely Northerner in a local pub in North Kent sitting with them that made it all so worthwhile. The best thing about them were the opinions, and their strong belief in each and every one. Old people of The Gravesend Boat - thankyou!

Old people are cool.
My Auntie in her youth was a hippy, did marajuana, dropped out of teaching college and went on the trail around India.
Now she still jets off to places like Canada & America, goes to play scrabble with her friends and brings a BIG bottle of gin, goes and see's rude plays at the theatre and loves the Simpsons.

are impatient
smell funny
always complain
give crap presents
have weird hands
have really freaky hair and liver-spotted scalp
are selfish about giving up your seat on the train/bus
give off the sound of incontinence pants scrunching when you walk

na, i dont think its the fact that old people are old that makes them ace. some old people are complete twats and others are really cool and interesting to talk to. -hang on a minute- sounds like the entire population of humans to walk this earth. the age is irrelevant. it's the actual people they are that makes the difference!